Stocking Up & Storing 
CORN VS POTATO?(32)
Taking stock of what we have here in the urban homestead’s pantry for our next co-op order, a recent comment from a friend got me thinking. Been doing a lot of that lately, especially when it comes to our food staples that we don’t grow. Now, I am all for choices but sometimes I think Ma Ingalls had it, well, “easier.”
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WILL WORK FOR FOOD
If you’ve seen our short Homegrown Revolution film (now available on DVD – purchase your copy here) where I say that we are “directly and indirectly self sufficient” from our little 1/10 plot here in the city. BTW, the HGR film is NOT the same one that’s on YouTube (view here) which has over 318,000 [...]
(7) AMERICA EATS
Not very well, I am afraid. “These are the top 10 items sold at grocery stores for the 52 weeks ending June 14, 2009. They are ranked by dollar sales. 1. Carbonated beverages 2. Milk 3. Fresh bread and rolls 4. Beer/Ale/Hard cider 5. Salty snacks 6. Natural cheese 7. Frozen dinners/entrees 8. Cold cereal [...]
(11) EATING DOWN THE LIST
Over the years we’ve made, remade and tweaked our basic “grocery list” of things we can’t grow here on the urban homestead and for the most part we pretty much stick to the list week after week, month after month. When I say “stick to the list” we don’t buy outside the list which helps [...]
(19) PAYING MORE FOR LESS
Have you noticed this slight of packaging, incredible shrinking phenomenon? How are you dealing with increase in food prices? How are you fighting back by letting retailers know that “we don’t need no stinkin’ packages!” Here are our ‘Seven Keys’ to saving money. Care to add? Grow your own Buy local and in season [...]
(9) THE URBAN HOMESTEAD PANTRY
We urban homesteaders find that making a list and sticking to it helps with the overall running and operation of the urban homestead. How we went about determining our monthly grocery list is to see what “staples” we commonly use throughout the month and made up a “basic shopping list” that we tack prominently on [...]
(34) WHAT’S IN THE TRUCK?
Jim, the truck driver unloads the supplies. Under a sweltering sun in a parking lot in front of the Rose Bowl, me (left – in the homemade crohet hippie hat ) and fellow co-opers wait for the rest of our orders On the pick up list this month for us urban homesteaders are: 100 lbs [...]
(2) THE COST OF FOOD
As the days get longer our grocery bill gets shorter as our plates are full with more and more homegrown produce (which is certainly a blessing!) BTW, for those interested in our Grow for 10K Challenge, our total tally from Jan-May stands at 1,614 pounds. This week will be harvesting “heavy weight crops” – potatoes [...]
(11) OBSCENE GREEN: DOING MORE WITH MORE
Too Perfect. View of the mega produce section at the Pasadena Mega Whole Foods. Photo courtesy of Rainy Days and Sunday’s Since homey Wild Oats on Lake Ave shut its doors last November, we urban homesteaders have refused to step foot in the mega Whole Foods located on Arroyo Parkway. This monstrosity of a so-called [...]
(28) LOCAL FOOD CO-OP
Jordanne and goats waiting for the truck, truck arrives Yesterday was certainly a busy day for us urban homesteaders. We had a camera crew filming all day, following us around and sitting us down for personal interviews. Other than filming, PTF also had an exploratory meeting with some folks at city hall. And then there [...]
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